The Aegis II Class Cruiser is a direct result of the Ascension Project during the late 3040’s and through the 3050’s.
In 3048, Wing Commander Linna Tetsuhara and her Black Sharks were conducting a routine training mission with elements of New Earth’s newly formed 2nd/6th Air Wing on the edges of the Tau Ceti’s Asteroid Belt. During this month long combat training mission, the two units were tasked with carrying out a series of attack and counter attack missions. During the mission the two large aerospace units traveled to the training zone near the asteroid belt. Once on station, the local units would play the part of defenders while the Black Sharks would play the role of attacker. The routine annual training mission is called Hostile Skies 48, 48 for the year that the mission takes place.
During this year’s mission a rookie pilot from the 2nd/6th attempt to flee one of Tetsuhara’s Black Sharks. The pilot fled from the yellow, black camouflaged fighter from the Black Sharks, he drove deeper in to the belt. The pursuit was heated and filled with adrenaline as the rookie pilot pushed his skills while he attempted to avoid being caught by the Black Shark pursuing him. After shaking the Black Shark, the rookie pilot stumbled upon a massive metal object lurking in the asteroid belt. The pilot reported the find and the training mission was suspended while the large object was investigated. After a flew close passes by Commander Tetsuhara and her Black Sharks the object was identified as the SDLF Bismarck. The Bismarck was a Star League era Aegis Class cruiser thought destroyed during the fall of the Star League.
Commander Tetsuhara and a hand full of Marines first explored of the ship. The levels of toxic gases within the ship forced that exploration short. An urgent encrypted call was placed to New Earth Defense Command. Within hours of the find, President Bailey signed a special Presidential Order that created the Ascension Project. During the years that followed, Ascension became New Earth’s best kept secret. Barely a handful of people on New Earth knew about Ascension let alone what was really behind it. Uttering the word Ascension could land a political official or even a reporter asking about it, in prison.
To protect their find, General Death and his Death’s Bridge were called in to protect the site. The Pathfinders were tasked with the critical role of counter intelligence. While New Earth could have called for help from the Federated Commonwealth, the fears that the FedCom would swoop in and take the find prevented this request. New Earth wanted to keep the find for themselves. Quietly a team of scientists recruited from across New Earth were put together.
Due to secrecy, only a very limited number of the scientists knew the complete details behind Ascension. Because of the level of secrecy behind the project, the two training units and their support personal were kept within the asteroid belt while a cover story was created. A complete communication blackout was strictly enforced while the research team continued to explore the ship. So tight was the communication blackout, that only a very few communication devices were left operational. The remaining were intentionally disabled to prevent their RF signals from being picked up at range by a passing ship.
Due to the intensive background checks that often left qualified scientists back on New Earth, the secrets of Ascension were unknown even to the two intelligence agencies belonging to the Federated-Commonwealth were oblivious to what was going on in Tau Ceti’s asteroid belt. The secrecy of Ascension rivaled another best kept secret of New Earth, ‘Destiny’. Being the only Star League Era Warship in the Inner Sphere, the secrecy behind Ascension was well justified.
While General Death, Commander Tetsuhara and their respected units maintained a tight security zone around the ship, Karen Tetsuhara-Death’s team arrived at the Bismarck during January 3049. The find was remarkable though badly damaged due to repeated collisions with asteroids. During her first exploration of the ship, Tetsuhara-Death and her team spent several days exploring the ship. Their first focus was to identify the ship’s bridge and uncover what happened to the ship.
The team secured the black boxes of the ship and the ships logs. The team learned that the Bismarck was on a routine training mission when disaster struck in late January of 2766. It had always been assumed that the ship was lost due to being attacked by Rim Worlds Republic ships during the opening shots of the Aramis Coup. However, in 3049, the record was set straight as New Earth’s research team learned that it wasn’t combat that killed the crew. Tetsuhara-Death and her team learned that a malfunction within the Transit Drive system released a toxic gas in to the life support systems of the Bismarck. The gases killed most of the Engineering staff of the ship within seconds of the leak starting. It was due to the skill and professionalism of the remaining engineering staff that managed to save the remaining crewmembers from the leak.
The working together, the ship’s crew had been able secure the gas leak and cordon off contaminated sections of the ship to prevent further death. The Transit Drive and the K-F sections of the ship were so badly contaminated that it took hours for the crew to reoccupy the space. During this time, the malfunction continued causing the Bismarck’s engines to completely fail, leaving the ship powerless and adrift near Tau Ceti asteroid belt. The crew did their best to save their ship but the crisis continued to grow as emergency life support started to fail.
Normally, the Bismarck would have been rescued within hours by other Star League ships in the area. However, the untimely and surprising arrival of Rim Worlds Republic warships caused the Bismarck to vanish in to History. Because of the surprise attack and not receiving a distress signal, it was assumed that the Bismarck was destroyed by enemy action during the battle of New Earth. Well after the crew had slowly suffocating to death, a new Texas Class Battleship was renamed Bismarck in honor of the former Aegis class ship. This Bismarck survived the war and left the Inner Sphere with Aleksandr Kerensky and his Star League Defense Force. The Aegis Class Bismarck became lost to History and the Inner Sphere as it floated lifelessly at the edges of the Tau Ceti’s Asteroid Belt.
It was decided that New Earth would keep their find, even from the Federated Commonwealth. A special repair facility was ordered constructed for the Bismarck within the Tau Ceti asteroid belt. This facility would later become cornerstone of the Harthford Shipyards. Tetsuhara-Death and her team started to crawl over the Bismarck learning as much as they could. Thanks to the armor of the Bismarck, the vast majority of the damage to the ship was only superficial. Nearly all of the ship’s vital components were intact. The only major issue with the ship was to the massive transit drive which had suffered the initial malfunction.
As months passed, Tetsuhara-Death’s team were able to unlock the secrets with the ship. It became clear that the massive project was more than New Earth could handle. Crisis meetings were called as the topic of letting the Federated-Commonwealth in on their secret was discussed. It was the Clan Invasion which engulfed the Inner Sphere and the introduction of Clan Warships that changed the minds of New Earth. After the events of Turtle Bay came to light, New Earth sent a secret group of scientist led by Karen Tetsuhara-Death to the New Avalon Institute of Science.
With them, the scientists carried all they had learned about the Bismarck to date. During closed door meetings with both military and scientific minds of the Federated Commonwealth, New Earth explained everything they had discovered. While the truth of Ascension was a Godsend for the Federated Commonwealth, it further soured relations between New Earth and Tharkad. New Earth stood defiantly when it was demanded that the ship be turned over to the Federated Commonwealth. It was the wisdom of the FedCom Leadership that worked out a deal with New Earth that allowed them to maintain the ship while sharing what they had found.
The Bismarck would remain in New Earth hands while teams of researcher and scientists have unrestricted access to the ship and the vast research facility New Earth had built around the ship. In exchange, the FedCom would help support the cost and resources of further unlocking the secrets of the ship. This agreement would place the FedCom on much more stable ground when it came time to rebuilding their own Warship Fleet. When the agreement was ratified by New Earth’s Congress, Ascension was downgraded in security protocols and fifteen politicians and reports were released from prison.
When word reached Tetsuhara-Death that the Federated-Commonwealth was allowing bids for a pair of new warships designs. She pressed Harthford to enter the bidding competition. Despite the fact that this would place Harthford in direct competition with some of the best developed shipyards in the Inner Sphere, this could place New Earth on the map of Industrial Centers of the Inner Sphere. Even with all the advantages New Earth and Harthford had going in to the competition, Ioto Galactic Enterprises and Federated-Boeing Interstellar had centuries of experience in building ships. Winning was not a given. Yet even in defeat, it was hoped that Harthford could start to build a name for themselves and thus further the company’s reputation.
The Department of the Quartermaster put out that the new ship had to be state of the art, fast and combat effective. Harthford designers decided to base their design off of the Aegis design, thus making the ship a general refit of the older design. Having an actually Aegis to explore and test gave Harthford a massive advantage. However, cost overruns and failure to meet their milestones during development phases plagued the project. This also was a reflection of Harthford’s inexperience in this field. The project design was pledged with design flaws. When it seemed that nothing more could go wrong during the development, the first official showing of the design that nearly killed the entire project.
By 3053 and despite the problems in their design, Harthford was well ahead of their competitors in the design competition thanks to the Bismarck. By September of 3054, Harthford scheduled a concept showing of their new Aegis II Class cruiser. A team from the Department of the Quartermaster arrived as per the scheduled event, however due to miscommunications, Harthford officials weren’t expecting the team for another two weeks. They rushed the showing despite warning from lead designers that the ship wasn’t ready.
While the ship’s engines stole the spotlight with impressive acceleration and maneuvers that was uncommon for any warship designs, it was the combat trials that sunk the ship. First problems came when the ships weapons systems were powered up and then failed as the ship’s power systems couldn’t support the massive draw by the ships Capital and non-Capital weapon systems. This caused the ship on a number of occasions to become lifeless in space. Vibrations from the Grav-Deck shook the ship on a regular basis. The lack of missile launchers was a point of concern by the Quartermaster Team.
Due to a scheduling mistake, the naval air wing that was supposed to be assigned to the ship during the event wasn’t available for the event. One observer from the FedCom pointed out that the Aegis II was a carrier that lacked Aero-Assets. The crew’s inexperience with the ship was only magnified by the crisis during the event. After the two-day event, the Aegis II hung in space lifeless like her matriarch. The Department of the Quartermaster team was evacuated by naval shuttles. With the project and billions of C-Bills in jeopardy, Karen Tetsuhara-Death (who up to this moment had been a semi-silent partner in Harthford Shipyards, and had a massive investment of her personal fortunes in the project) stepped in to save the project.
Ever the business woman, Tetsuhara-Death relieved the top executives of the project and doubled down on her investment. She personally met with the leaders of Department of the Quartermaster team. She convinced them to return in one year for the rebirth of the project. Tetsuhara-Death promised the ship that they would see in one year would not be the same that they saw during this trip. With a lifeline created for her investment, Tetsuhara-Death turned to Harthford and got to work.
Gone was the caring mother and wife as Karen Tetsuhara-Death put on her business suite. Tetsuhara-Death was more like tyrant setting the bar high for her design teams. So determined to make this project successful, Tetsuhara-Death moved from New Earth to the new Harbor Prime Facility so that she could personally oversee the design project. A move that the previous executives had been unwilling to do. She demanded that the ship will be ready in one year or the designers would never find work on New Earth again.
Tetsuhara-Death realized the first problem the project was a disconnect between the designers, whom many of them still resided on New Earth and the military personal who would be using the ship. To correct this problem, Tetsuhara-Death ordered the entire design staff to move from New Earth and relocate to Harbor Prime. Tetsuhara-Death required every designer to become intimate with warships. To further this goal, the designers were forced to live among side the very navy personal they were building the ship for.
Tetsuhara-Death also requested to have Admiral Thomas Rein and Commodore Viscount Hall to join the design teams. Both men each had a life time of space combat experience under their belts and brought that experience to the table for the project. Tetsuhara-Death also conducted a number of tours of the NEWS Bizmark, the sea fairing warship on New Earth. These tours would prove overall beneficial to the project. For the next year, Tetsuhara-Death and her design teams lived, slept, ate and breathed space born naval operations. This gave them a keen insight in to what the Aegis II needed.
While Tetsuhara-Death and her teams were learning to become Naval Officers, they continued to refit the Prototype Ship dubbed the Aegis II. The second major problem with the design was facing was the extremely high demand on power from the ship’s weapon systems. This demand was primarily from the secondary weapon ships of the ship. To address this power problem, Tetsuhara-Death’s team ripped out well over half of these secondary weapon systems.
To address one of the concerns from the FedCom Quartermaster Team, the designers dug carefully in to the logs of the failed showing of the Aegis II. They added four Killer Whale Missile Launchers to give the Aegis II a Capital Missile launcher system. They also added twenty-four Laser Anti-Missile systems to increase the protection of the ship during combat.
Tetsuhara-Death turned her focus towards redesigning the crew quarters. She stated that the original designers had designed the Aegis II based off of concepts used to design Jumpships and Dropships. She explained that this allowed for thousands of tons of wasted space. Tetsuhara-Death’s design teams designed the Aegis II more like a pure warship. They drew on their tours of the NEWS Bizmark for inspiration.
While the quarters shrank the teams also turned to the two Zero “G†kitchens of the ship. They added an additional kitchen, and vested some space saving ideas to help with weight. They also added some of the most state of the art Zero “G†appliances to ensure that the kitchens were more than able to provide for the crew of the ship. The design teams also added two open lounges, for the crew to blow off steam during long patrols. To continue their focus on crew moral, the design teams increased the size of the Grav Decks by over double. They also added an addition Grav Deck to help balance the rotations and deal with the vibrations across the ship.
During the redesign phase of the project, the crew of the redesigned Aegis II ballooned from five hundred seventy, to eight hundred fifty-one. This increase came from additional gun crews and a medical department that could act as a theater hospital during combat operations. To ensure that crew safety was not overlooked, the design teams made sure that there were more than enough life boats and escape pods for the entire crew plus passengers.
Tetsuhara-Death wanted to give the Aegis II an advantage over any Inner Sphere or Clan ship currently in service. The Design team maxed out the ship’s armor and choose the ultra-expensive Lamellor Ferro-Carbide Armor to protect the ship. While this move gave the Aegis II an armor protection that is more compared with Battleships than Cruisers, it also increased the cost of the ship far above the allotted budget of the project.
Tetsuhara-Death didn’t stop there. As she looked over the ship, she saw something else growing from the project. It was a change in concept that could sweep the Inner Sphere and Clan space. The idea of carriers was not a new concept, Tetsuhara-Death looked to the growing Tau Ceti Defense System. She noted that an integrated system could benefit a massive warship like the Aegis II. She called her husband and leader of the Death’s Bridge and convinced him to take a leap of faith with her. Vesting her own money, she upgraded the communication systems of every unit within the Death’s Brigade in to an integrated system. Much like the C3, this upgrade would allow for real time data sharing between units.
The Aegis II was designed to integrate fluidly in to any friendly C3 on the battlefield. Thus allowing all friendly units to share the same data. Across the battlefield, rather in space or planet side, the Aegis II could act as a central hub of data being passed between units. Unlike the C3 systems that was built as a separate piece of equipment within the unit, Tetsuhara-Death’s C4 was integrated in to the unit at the basic level. While there was not a weight increase for the system, this did increase the cost of the communication and targeting systems by seventy-five percent for all units integrated in to the system.
To take this information load off of the bridge, Tetsuhara-Death added a secondary bridge deep within the Aegis II. Not only could this secondary bridge operated as the main bridge during times of emergency, but this secondary bridge was fitted with some of the highest tech computers New Earth had to offer. From here, the ship’s commander and the C4 staff could command the battlefield far beyond the Aegis II. With the changes well underway, Tetsuhara-Death only needed a crack crew to show off her new ship.
Months before the next showing, Tetsuhara-Death ordered Harthford to expand their slipways and to start construction on new hulls. It was a massive gamble but Tetsuhara-Death was confident in the new design that she and her team created. Harthford complied with the order and even before the orders by the FedCom were placed, three new hulls were laid down. They also started construction on four new slipways, so to quickly expand their operations once the orders started to roll in. Impressed by the design and in a show of support for his wife, General Death bought the prototype Aegis II and rechristen the ship, NEWS Enterprise.
General Death and Commodore Hall hand-picked the crew of the Enterprise and personally led their training. For weeks, the Death’s Brigade trained with their new ship and mastered its abilities. Thanks to Tetsuhara-Death’s leadership skills and business mind the Enterprise and its crew was more than ready for its performance before the Department of the Quartermaster team. The FedCom Team arrived at the Harthford complex and were not disappointed. What they saw was a massive effort by New Earth and Hartford to break in to the warship building industry.
To the surprise of the FedCom Team, the crew of the NEWS Enterprise performed with skill and professionalism that surpassed all expectations. Marshal Cray of the Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth was quoted saying “You've got a decent design…..†Event after event, the Enterprise and her crew put forward a stunning show of skill and the abilities of the ship. However, the FedCom Team rejected the design once more.
Despite the impressive showing of the Enterprise, it would be the costs involved in the ship that would doom the project. The Lamellor Ferro-Carbide armor alone added nearly two hundred million to the price tag. The C4 system only increased the overall cost of the ship. More than that, to benefit fully from the C4 concept, every unit assigned to the ship would have to be upgraded for the new communication system. It was just a cost too far for the FedCom Quartermaster Team.
More than just cost turned the design team away from the Aegis II. The limited cargo capacity of the Aegis II also a major concern for the FedCom Team. While the Aegis II did carry enough provisions for a standard six-month combat patrol or twelve-month non-combat patrol, it was not enough to off-set the extremely high price tag of the design.
It was a bitter blow for Harthford. The contracts that everyone expected didn’t materialize. The project was over budget, behind schedule and couldn’t overcome the flaws of the earlier showing. Faith in the design had fallen as the lucrative contract went to Ioto Galactic Enterprises and Federated-Boeing Interstellar to build what would become the cornerstone of the AFFC Warship fleet, the ‘Fox’ class corvettes. Though the FedCom Team did give Harthford design credits for their innovation in crew accommodations. The accommodation designs would be featured on the Fox Class corvettes.
The investment and gamble risked driving Harthford out of business and bankrupting the Tetsuhara-Death family. In an attempt to manage the losses, Tetsuhara-Death negotiated a deal with New Earth Defense Command for five ships of the line at a reduced price. The Enterprise would maintain its Lamellor Ferro-Carbide while the remaining ships of the line would be fitted with the lesser expensive Ferro-Carbide armor. The deal would help keep Harthford in business and set the stage for a remarkable show down between two warship designs.
During the Lyran Invasion of 3060, two Aegis II Cruisers supported by the grandmother of the design, the Bismarck, played a critical role in the defense of Harthford’s shipyards. The ships squared off with five Fox Class Corvettes led by an Essex Class Destroyer, the LAS Scheer. Surprisingly, the commander of the LAS Scheer had been a serious critic of the Aegis II project when he served within the FedCom Department of the Quartermaster.
The attack on the shipyards at Harbor Prime came as a complete surprise attack from New Earth’s former allies. Military analysts found little flaw in the Lyran attack. They had superior numbers in terms of dropships and fighters. Despite being out numbered and out gunned, the Aegis II’s still proved to be a strong contender against the superior forces of the Lyrans.
While the focus on speed and armor gave the Aegis II a clear advantage, it was the Combat Information Center that helped win the twin of battles for Harbor Prime. It was the first real test of C4 on a multi battlefield in deep space. The C4 system allowed the New Earth defenders to coordinate their defensive lines and neutralize the Lyran numerical advantage early on in the battle. The Laser AMS systems protected the New Earth ships against both swarm fighters and incoming missiles.
Despite being outnumbered in terms of fire power, support ships, and fighters, the Aegis II proved their metal in combat. The Aegis II had lived up to its expectations and vindicated its supporters. While the shipyards were only slightly damaged, the attackers were mostly disabled and captured. Only one of the five attacking corvettes managed to flee the battlefield. The victory would go a long way to While she wouldn’t survive to learn the success of her ship, Karen Tetsuhara-Death’s design would save New Earth’s vital shipyards.
In the wake of the Lyran Invasion, New Earth Defense Command ordered two more Aegis II’s to fill out their growing fleet. Also all current ships of this line were recalled and had their ammo feed McArthur Anti-Missile systems removed. Critical components of the McArthur system were manufactured on Coventry. Due to the trade embargo and Blockade of 3059, access to those parts were no longer reliable. As such, New Earth Navy ordered the CyberDrone A-3 Laser AMS installed on the Aegis II Class ships. This made them less ammo dependent but increased their heat. An additional amount of heat sinks were added during the refit to deal with the over all heat issues.
As effects of the Lyran Blockade and Trade Embargo took their effect over New Earth, the future of the Aegis II production line became unclear. With the main armaments of the Aegis II imported from worlds across the Federated Commonwealth and the Lyran Alliance, it is unclear if New Earth will be able to maintain these powerful weapons. To address this issue, Harthford Shipyards entered in to negotiations with supporters of Victor Steiner-Davion within the Federated Commonwealth as well as with Comstar and Draconis Combine for possible contracts. Should any of these contracts pan out, than it very well could be the saving grace of the Aegis II production line in wake of the Lyran Trade Embargo and Blockade.
Current ships of the line:
NEWS Enterprise (Variant)
NEWS Yorktown
NEWS Ranger
NEWS Ark Royal
NEWS Maverick
NEWS Prince Victor Steiner-Davion (Under Construction)
Aegis II Fast Attack Cruiser
Builder: Harthford Shipyards (New Earth)
Tech: Inner Sphere
Mass: 865,000 Tons
Length: 745 Meters
Safe Thrust: 4 (2G's)
Maximum Thrust: 6 (3G's)
Fuel: 3,000 Tons (Fuel Points per ton 2.5 = 7,500 Fuel Points)
Tons/Burn per Day: 39.52
Sail Diameter: 1,450 Meters (Carries Two)
Basic Components Notes/Formula: Tonnage
Drive System: 4 Thrust (6% * 4) = 24%; 24 * 865,000 207,600.0
Fuel + Fuel Pumps: (3,000 * .02) + 3,000 3,060.0
Structural Integrity: 100 (30 x 5 = 150 Max SI) (100 x 865,000) / 1,000 86,500.0
KF Drive: 865,000 * 45.25% 391,412.5
KF Drive Integrity: 18 2 +(391,412.5/25,000)
Jump Sail: (Carries 2 Sails) 30 + (865,000 / 20,000) x2 146.5
Sail Integrity: 5 1 + (73.25 / 20)
Bridge: 865,000 * .0025 2,162.5
Combat Information Center: 865,000 * .0025 2,162.5
Lithium-Fusion Batteries: .01 * 865,000 8,650.0
Engine Free Heat Sinks: 689 45+ Square Root of (207,600x2)
Installed Heat Sinks: (IS Double Heat Sinks) (2,860 + 689) * 2 = 7,098 2,860.0
Armor Section:
Max Armor Tons: 86,500/50 = 1,730
Armor Installed: (IS Ferro-Carbide) 1,384 Points 1,730 * .8 = 1,730.0
Basic Components Sub-Total: 706,284.0
Equipment and Crew Support Notes/Formula: Tonnage
Dropship Capacity: 5 5 * 1,000 5,000.0
Gravity Decks: 4 (at 225 Meters Diameter) 4 * 100 400.0
VIP Quarters: 10 VIP State Rooms (Suites @ 10 Tons Each) 10 * 10 100.0
Senior Officers Quarters: (Singles @ 6 Tons Each) 25 * 6 150.0
Junior Officer Quarters: (Doubles @ 5 Tons Each) (258 / 2) * 5 645.0
Enlisted Crew Quarters: (Quads @ 3 Tons Each) (568 / 4) * 3 426.0
3 Zero 'G' Mess Facilities and 2 Crew Lounge (3 * 150 Tons) + (2 * 25 Tons) 500.0
Escape Pods: 75 (@ 7 Tons Each, 6 passengers) 52% of Total Crew 525.0
Life Boats: 75 (@ 7 Tons Each, 6 Passengers) 52% of Total Crew 525.0
Fighter/Small Craft Bays: (76 * 150= 11,400) + (20 * 200= 4,000) 15,400.0
Cargo Capacity: (Bay Three) 3,180.0
Sub Total: 26,851.0
Basic Components + Equipment Sub-Total Tonnage: 733,135.0
Weapons & Defenses Amount Heat Generated Tonnage
Naval Autocannons 35 014 1,680 Heat 56,000
Naval Autocannons 20 008 480 Heat 20,000
Naval Lasers 55 022 1,870 Heat 24,200
Heavy Naval PPC 008 1,800 Heat 24,000
Killer Whale Missile Launcher 004 80 Heat 600
Large Pulse Lasers 024 240 Heat 168
ER Large Lasers 024 288 Heat 120
ER PPC 024 360 Heat 168
Laser Anti-Missile System 024 288 Heat 36
Rounds NAC/35 420 420
Rounds NAC/20 320 128
Killer Whale Missiles 020 1,000
Sub-Totals: Total Heat: 7,086 Tonnage: 126,840
Basic Components + Equipment + Weapons Total Tonnage: 860,000
Aegis II Personal Break Down: Total Crew 851
Officers and Crew: 431 (Minus Flight Crew and Marine Attachment. 21 Senior Officers, 103 Junior Officers, 307 Enlisted Crew)
Bridge Crew:
5 Bridge Officers (Senior Officers), 6 Bridge Staff (Junior Officers), 6 Engineers (Enlisted Crew), 6 Pilots/Navigators (Enlisted Crew) Total Bridge Crew: 23
Gun Crews: Total Gun Crews 268 (By Firing Arc: Nose: 6, Nose R/L: 14, Broadsides R/L: 28, Aft R/L: 12, Aft: 5 = 65 Total Weapon Mounts)
8 Firing Arc Officers (Senior Officers), 65 Gun Commanders (Junior Officers), 65 Engineers (Enlisted Crew), 130 Secondary Engineers (Enlisted Crew)
Engineering Staff: Total Staff: 91 (2 Senior Officers, 17 Junior Officers, 38 Engineers (Enlisted Crew), 34 Secondary Engineers (Enlisted Crew)
K-F Section: 3 Junior Officers, 5 Engineers
Fusion Plant Section: 3 Junior Officers, 3 Engineers
Transit Drive Section: 3 Junior Officers, 10 Engineers
Damage Control Section: 2 Junior Officers, 14 Secondary Engineers
Maintenance Section: 6 Junior Officers, 20 Engineers, 20 Secondary Engineers
Medical Staff and other Personal: Total Staff: 6 Senior Officers, 15 Junior Officers, 28 Enlisted Crew: Total Staff 49
Medical Bay: 4 Doctors {Senior Officers}, 4 Nurses {Junior Officers}, 5 Medical Assistants {Enlisted Crew}
Administration: 1 Admin Officer {Junior Officer}, 7 Administration Staff {Enlisted Crew}
1 C4 Officer {Senior Officer}, 7 C4 Staff {Junior Officers}
Quarter Master/Mess Staff: 1 Quarter Master {Senior Officer}, 3 Mess Officers {Junior Officers}, 16 QM/Mess Staff {Enlisted Crew}
Marine Detachment: 125 Total Personal (1 Senior Officer, 4 Junior Officers, 120 Troopers)
25 Armored Points of 5 Marines Each. Total of 125 Armored Naval Infantry
Flight Deck and Flight Personal: 295 Total Personal (3 Senior Officers, 151 Junior Officers, 141 Enlisted Crew)
Flight Deck Personal: (1 Commander Air Group {Senior Officer}, 2 Deck Officers {Senior Officers}, 76 Aerospace Pilots {Junior Officers}, 18 Small Craft Pilots {Junior Officers}, 24 AWAC Crews {Junior Officers}, 15 Dust Off Crews {Junior Officers}, 18 Refueler Crews {Junior Officers}, 47 Mechanics {Enlisted Crew}, 47 Technicians {Enlisted Crew}, 47 Engineer Specialists {Enlisted Crew})
Armor Belt: (Total Points 1,384)
Fore: 230 + 10 Points
Fore-Sides (R/L): 231 + 10 Points (Each Side)
Aft-Sides (R/L): 231 + 10 Points (Each Side)
Aft: 230 + 10 Points
Bay/Cargo
Bay 1 Small Craft (10), Fighters (38) (8 Doors)
Bay 2 Small Craft (10), Fighters (38) (8 Doors)
Bay 3 Cargo: 6,136.5 Tons (1 Doors)
Naval Air Wing Carried Aboard
4 Aerospace Fighter Wings (64 Aerospace Fighters)
2 Aerospace Recon Squadrons (12 Aerospace Fighters)
1 Small Craft Squadron (8 Small Craft)
1 AWAC Craft Squadron (3 Small Craft)
1 Medical Squadron (3 Small Craft)
1 Space Refueler Squadron (6 Refueler Small Craft)
Total Craft by Type:
76 Aerospace Fighters
8 Small Craft (2 Pilots and a Cargo Master Each)
3 AWAC Small Craft (2 Pilots, 6 Specialists Each)
3 Medical Small Craft (2 Pilots, 3 Medics)
6 Refueler Small Craft (2 Pilots, Fuel Handler)
94 Total Craft
Firing Arc Type Heat Fighter Short Medium Long Extreme
Nose 2/NAC-35 240 NO 70 70 NA NA
Nose 2/NL-55 170 NO 11 11 11 11
Nose 4 LG PUL LAS 040 YES 4 4 NA NA
Nose 4 ER LG LAS 048 YES 3 3 3 NA
Nose 4 ER PPC 060 YES 4 4 4 NA
Nose 4 LAMS (FF:4) 048 NA NA NA NA NA
Fore Left 2/NL-55 170 NO 11 11 11 11
Fore Left 2/Hvy NPPC 450 NO 30 30 30 30
Fore Left 2/NAC-35 240 NO 70 70 NA NA
Fore Left 3 LG PUL LAS 030 YES 3 3 NA NA
Fore Left 3 ER LG LAS 036 YES 2 2 2 NA
Fore Left 3 ER PPC 045 YES 3 3 3 NA
Fore Left 3 LAMS (FF:3) 036 NA NA NA NA NA
Fore Right 2/NL-55 170 NO 11 11 11 11
Fore Right 2/Hvy NPPC 450 NO 30 30 30 30
Fore Right 2/NAC-35 240 NO 70 70 NA NA
Fore Right 3 LG PUL LAS 030 YES 3 3 NA NA
Fore Right 3 ER LG LAS 036 YES 2 2 2 NA
Fore Right 3 ER PPC 045 YES 3 3 3 NA
Fore Right 3 LAMS (FF:3) 036 NA NA NA NA NA
LT/Broadside 2/NAC-35 240 NO 70 70 NA NA
LT/Broadside 2/NAC-35 240 NO 70 70 NA NA
LT/Broadside 2/NAC-20 120 NO 40 40 40 NA
LT/Broadside 2/NAC-20 120 NO 40 40 40 NA
LT/Broadside 2/NL-55 170 NO 11 11 11 11
LT/Broadside 2/Killer Whale 040 YES 8 8 8 8
LT/Broadside 1 LG PUL LAS 010 YES 1 1 NA NA
LT/Broadside 1 ER LG LAS 012 YES 1 1 1 NA
LT/Broadside 1 ER PPC 015 YES 1 1 1 NA
LT/Broadside 1 LAMS (FF:1) 012 NA NA NA NA NA
LT/Broadside 1 LG PUL LAS 012 YES 1 1 NA NA
LT/Broadside 1 ER LG LAS 010 YES 1 1 1 NA
LT/Broadside 1 ER PPC 015 YES 1 1 1 NA
LT/Broadside 1 LAMS (FF:1) 012 NA NA NA NA NA
RT/Broadside 2/NAC-35 240 NO 70 70 NA NA
RT/Broadside 2/NAC-35 240 NO 70 70 NA NA
RT/Broadside 2/NAC-20 120 NO 40 40 40 NA
RT/Broadside 2/NAC-20 120 NO 40 40 40 NA
RT/Broadside 2/Killer Whale 040 YES 8 8 8 8
RT/Broadside 2/NL-55 170 NO 11 11 11 11
RT/Broadside 1 LG PUL LAS 010 YES 1 1 NA NA
RT/Broadside 1 ER LG LAS 012 YES 1 1 1 NA
RT/Broadside 1 ER PPC 015 YES 1 1 1 NA
RT/Broadside 1 LAMS (FF:1) 012 NA NA NA NA NA
RT/Broadside 1 LG PUL LAS 012 YES 1 1 NA NA
RT/Broadside 1 ER LG LAS 010 YES 1 1 1 NA
RT/Broadside 1 ER PPC 015 YES 1 1 1 NA
RT/Broadside 1 LAMS (FF:1) 012 NA NA NA NA NA
Aft Left 2/Hvy NPPC 450 NO 30 30 30 30
Aft Left 4/NL-55 340 NO 22 22 22 22
Aft Left 3 LG PUL LAS 030 YES 3 3 NA NA
Aft Left 3 ER LG LAS 036 YES 2 2 2 NA
Aft Left 3 ER PPC 045 YES 3 3 3 NA
Aft Left 3 LAMS (FF:3) 036 NA NA NA NA NA
Aft Right 2/Hvy NPPC 450 NO 30 30 30 30
Aft Right 4/NL-55 340 NO 22 22 22 22
Aft Right 3 LG PUL LAS 030 YES 3 3 NA NA
Aft Right 3 ER LG LAS 036 YES 2 2 2 NA
Aft Right 3 ER PPC 045 YES 3 3 3 NA
Aft Right 3 LAMS (FF:3) 036 NA NA NA NA NA
Aft 4/NL-55 240 NO 22 22 22 22
Aft 4 LG PUL LAS 040 YES 4 4 NA NA
Aft 4 ER LG LAS 048 YES 3 3 3 NA
Aft 4 ER PPC 060 YES 4 4 4 NA
Aft 4 LAMS (FF:4) 048 NA NA NA NA NA
Only Known Variant:
The New Earth WarShip, NEWS Enterprise uses Lamellor Ferro-Carbide armor instead of the standard Ferro-Carbide armor used in other ships of this class. This gives the Enterprise 1,730 total armor points (an additional 346 points) to her armor belt.
